Ambedded Technology today announced the general availability of its Mars 400, the latest Ceph software defined storage appliance, and Unified Virtual Storage (UVS) manager version 2.0, its web-based user interface. With the release of these 2 new products, Ambedded has again revolutionized the Ceph storage market, extending its market-leading economics with double the performance of the Mars 200, extending its applicability into high-performance use cases. UVS 2.0 simplifies and reduces the time to configure and manage Ceph clusters. Furthermore, it eliminates human error in provisioning. The Mars 400 appliance is a scalable high performance storage solution for mid- and large-scale enterprises and data centers. Its ease of management, no single point of failure, and low 105-Watt power consumption provide huge total cost of ownership (TCO) savings.

Mars 400’s server platform accommodates 8x 64-bit Dual-Core ARM Cortex-A72 servers in a one rack-unit (1RU) chassis. Two in-chassis redundant switches provide 4x10 Gbps uplink for horizontal scale out and client access. It eliminates network - storage device bottlenecks by pairing a single server node with a single storage device. Every ARM server node provides dedicated CPU, memory, storage and network interface resources to its supported object storage device (OSD). As a result, OSD performance is far more balanced than traditional single-server node designs supporting many OSDs. Further, Mars 400’s architecture provides greater accessibility due to its lack of a single point of failure. Also, by limiting the failure domain to a single disk, the Mars 400 exhibits faster recovery from microserver failures. The powerful 64-bit ARM Cortex A72 server enables Mars 400 to provide much higher bandwidth and IOPS compared to its companion product Cortex-A9 based Mars 200.

Ambedded Technology is a Software Defined Storage Appliance solution provider. Its innovative ARM-based MicroServer provides high performance without a single point of failure for distributed storage software. Ambedded’s products help customers reduce their TCO on data storage by integrating the storage server, Ceph Software Defined Storage software, and UVS management user interface technology in a compelling 1U appliance. Ambedded’s Ceph appliances have won Best of Interop Storage Winner in 2016 and Computex’s Golden Award in 2017.

Ceph Software Defined Storage (SDS) Appliance, with easy use GUI, powered by ARM micro server cluster in a box to support object storage, block storage and file system and OpenStack Swift, Cinder, Nova and Glance.